These were the cocktail napkins at last night’s awesome Mix08 party. Heaven forbid that someone should see this napkin and not understand that IE8 has not been RTM’d (that’s “Released to Manufacturing” for our Microspeak-challenged readers). Think of the legal ramifications! The support costs! The backward compatibility!!

Just sayin’ … under no circumstances should you build production applications using this napkin.

Microsoft is pulling out all the stops here in Vegas for Mix08, hauling in mega-geek celebrity and King of Kong hero Steve Wiebe

Bonus: uber-referee guy Walter Day

At the Mix08 keynote, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie framed the big picture of what Microsoft is doing, and gave some hints as to the 2008 roadmap.  This is a long post but it was a big talk with lots of structure, so bear with me:

The new version of Internet Explorer (ie8) was shown publicly for the first time at the Mix08 conference.  Notes hot off the presses from Dean Hachamovitch, IE General Manager, who talked about the 8 things that are going into it:

1) CSS 2.1
2) w3c CSS Certification
3) Performance
4) HTML 5 support
5) New Developer Tools
6) Activities
7) WebSlices
8) Public beta available today!